osama bin laden was there and they were basically any way asking us to come in. is that not a factor for any of 9/11 occurred? >> guest: thank you for your question. i am not aware of that specific cable. i do know is you will recall president clinton did receive intelligence that bin laden was in different neighboring country in sudan and after evaluation of options that president clinton did elect to send a cruise missile into sudan where he was believed to be holed up and unfortunately he was not there. i'm not aware of that particular cable from the yemeni government. >> host: another question from jane on our twitter page. isn't the revelation that we can track chatter from al qaeda a more serious breach than edward snowden's domestic spying leak? >> guest: is a great point that jim makes. basically you are right, jim. in many ways it is because at least in this particular instance it has now been revealed that we actually were listening in on the communications between i'm on all zawahiri and the leader of the aqap. unfortunately it was revealed that most l